Oversized clothes pegs, made of wood too. See those chains hanging from the bottom? Well they actually had cars hanging from those chains, about 10 of them in a row (one car to a peg of course). I think they were going for some recors or something similar. Just shows you how big they really were.
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08/16/13  Panasonic G Vario 14-140 f4-5.81197
E-M5 Focal Length: 108 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/800 sec ISO: 320 • Panasonic • Olympus • OM-D • 14-140 f4-5.8
08/15/13  Panasonic G Vario 14-140 f4-5.8Same fountain and building as yesterdays post, only in landscape mode. Converted to monochrome in Nik SFXII. 1069
E-M5 Focal Length: 14 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec ISO: 320 • Panasonic • Olympus • OM-D • 14-140 f4-5.8
08/14/13  Panasonic G Vario 14-140 f4-5.8And another one of these shots. Makes you feel really small. 1193
E-M5 Focal Length: 14 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec ISO: 200 • panasonic • olympus • OM-D • 14-140 f4-5.8
08/13/13  Panasonic G Vario 14-140 f4-5.8I just love these shots, just looking up and seeing these towering buildings. I think I'd have a field day in New York. Oh..and look, there's another crane! Just can't get away from them these days. 1058
E-M5 Focal Length: 14 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/2000 sec ISO: 200 • Panasonic • Olympus • OM-D • 14-140 f4-5.6
08/12/13  Panasonic G Vario 14-140 f4-5.8I didn't realise there were so many different types of Saxophones. Did you? 1035
E-M5 Focal Length: 78 mm Aperture: f/5.8 Exposure Time: 1/200 sec ISO: 200 • Panasonic • Olympus • OM-D • 14-140 f4-5.8
08/11/13  Panasonic G Vario 14-140 f4-5.8Here's a shot of nearly all of the musicians. As you can see they're always moving about and I didn't quite get a shot with all of them in the same frame. Problematic of all were the photographers that were bouncing around all over the place. And believe me, there were a lot of them. Having seem some statistics on the Internet comparing sales of DSLRs against mirrorless cameras, it seems that the DSLR still rules. DSLRs outsold mirrorless by quite a margin, which really has me puzzled. There isn't a lot in it imagewise and the mirrorless are much smaller making them easier to carry around. Maybe it's the myth that DSLRs are the real thing, a real camera. One thing I have noticed however, is that the price of mirrorless cameras have risen in the last few months making them more expensive than the DSLR at introduction. This has me really scratching my head too, for it must be cheaper to make a mirrorless camera than a DSLR. Maybe it's the quantity that makes a difference. It could also be that normal people (I'm a bit of a camera geek so I don't class myself as normal in this respect) buy a camera and keep it for a long long time. But that doesn't explain who is buying the new DSLRs. One thing is for certain, the prices of mirrorless cameras has to come down; I believe they the manufacturers are pricing themselves out of the market. Just look at the pricing of the Nex-7 or OM-D and even the new EP-5. Each one is around or over the €1000 mark. Way too expensive in my opinion. I think if they reduced the price they would sell a lot more of them as cash is pretty scarce these days. Not everyone is prepared to spend a €1000 on a camera body. Personally, I would love to own the new Leica X Vario, but not at that price. The Sony RX1 is a superb camera and I would dearly love to own that one too, but again, not at that price. I would love to hear your opinion on how the manufacturers could increase their market share. 994
E-M5 Focal Length: 75 mm Aperture: f/5.8 Exposure Time: 1/200 sec ISO: 200 • Panasonic • Olympus • OM-D • 14-140 f4-5.8
08/10/13  Panasonic G Vario 14-140 f4-5.8Both the OM-D and the Panasonic 14-140 f4-5.8 have image stabilisation but I believe the one implemented in the OM-D is better so I switched the one in the lens off. All of these images were taken with that configuration. Both ILIS and IBIS have their advantages and disadvantages, the IBIS can be used with every lens you mount on the camera, even the very old legacy lenses. As these functions are developed, ILIS gets better and better too, but it can't be relaced in the lenses you have already bought. That means that once you have bought a lens then you're stuck with the ILIS that came with the lens. People may argue that that also applies to the system in the camera. I have to agree with that but I tend to buy lenses that will stay with me for some time. I.e. I don't buy a lens and expect it to be replced very soon, and cameras tend to come and go at regular intervals. A camera that costs you €1000 today will most likely be heavily discounted in a years time and can be picked up for a third of the original price; or less. Lenses tend to be expensive toys and there is little point in duplicating the focal range already covered. So people tend to be very careful when buying a lens or a range of lenses, especially zoom lenses. They normally do their research before buying. The only time you will normally find the focal length duplicated is when prime lenses are bought that a zoom lens already covers. The reason being of course: the speed of the lens. These prime lenses usually have a maximum aperture of f1.4, f1.8 or f2.8. They are normally used for indoor shots such as in bars, during performances or indoor sport venues. A photographer can be split into two categories; 1. A prime lens user and 2. A zoom lens user. This doesn't mean that they don't use the other type of lens, but prefer using one sort over the other. I like prime lenses but tend to use zooms because I'm always finding myself in a situation where I've got the wrong prime lens mounted. Some would call me lazy but there are situations where you just can't zoom with your feet and zoom lenses are excellent for just this reason. 1092
E-M5 Focal Length: 114 mm Aperture: f/5.8 Exposure Time: 1/125 sec ISO: 200 • Panasonic • Olympus • OM-D • 14-140 f4-5.6
08/09/13  Panasonic G Vario 14-140 f4-5.8This group was always on the move, never standing still. it was pretty hard to get a clear and clean shot of any of them. The two young women at in the front with their backs to me were two sax players and they were having fun. As a matter of fact they all were. They played for some time with a large crowd gathering around them, and it struck me, how do they manage to remember all those notes. It's probably because I'm tone deaf that I can't imagine how they do it. I'm impressed with such people though. 1015
E-M5 Focal Length: 140 mm Aperture: f/5.8 Exposure Time: 1/125 sec ISO: 200 • Panasonic • Olympus • OM-D • 14-140 f4-5.8
08/08/13  Panasonic G Vario 14-140 f4-5.8I don't think I heard a bad band all day. This one consisted of all age graoups and were pretty jazzy in style. Normally not my sort of thing but quite entertaining and they pulled a large crowd. It was difficult to find a spot for a clear shot. 1308
E-M5 Focal Length: 140 mm Aperture: f/5.8 Exposure Time: 1/320 sec ISO: 200 • Panasonic • Olympus • OM-D • 14-140 f4-5.6
08/07/13  Panasonic G Vario 14-140 f4-5.8These musicians were moving all the time and this is where you really see how slow this lens is. The Panasonic 35-100 f2.8 would have been better suited for this type of photography. I was also in the shade with skyscrapers all around me. I took bursts here to be certain that I got one sharp image. I tend to do this quite often. Many believe this to be quite amateurish as it may well be, but then again, I am an amateur. I don't mind going through the images once downloaded to my PC because I really don't have any time pressure. I just delete all those that don't make my standard in the first culling viewing. 1258
E-M5 Focal Length: 48 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/200 sec ISO: 200 • Panasonic • Olympus • OM-D • 14-140 f4-5.8
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